Curtain-fixture.



No. 845.788. PATR'NTRD MAR. 5, 1907.

. 1. L. HOTALING.

CURTAIN FIXTURE.-

APPLIOATION FILED FEB. 10, 1906.

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IRVING L. HOTALING, OF RIVERTON, NEVlT JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE CUR- TAIN SUPPLY COMPANY., OF NEVARK, NEW JERSEY, A CORPGRATION OF NEW JERSEY.

CURTINHFDTUHE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 5, 1907.

Application filed February l0, 1906. Serial No. 300,438.

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Be it known that I, IRvrNe L. Ho'rALrNe, a citizen of the United States, residing at Riverton, in the county of Burlington and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Curtain-Fixtures, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to curtain-fixtures of that type wherein a curtain-stick secured in or to the lower portion of a curtain is provided with a head at each end carrying devices engaging a guidinggroove of the window-frame and automatically resisting through frictional engagement with the guide the upward pull of the curtain-roller spring, while permitting the curtain and fix* ture to be freely drawn downwardly.

The object of this invention is to provide a curtain-fixture of the type described that shall possess simplicity and economy of construction with a high degree of holding power, and this object l accomplish by means of a construction characterized chiefly by the provision, in association with a curtain-stick and a head carried thereby havingroller seats or pockets, of guide-engaging rollers confined in said seats or pockets and peripherally engaged by the latter with a braking or rotation retarding effect, whereby said rollers are caused to engage the casing-guide under sufficient friction to prevent the upward movement of the curtain under the upward pull of the curtain-roller spring and hold said curtain stationary in any adjusted position.

My invention in approved mechanical forms is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, `wherein-' Figure 1 is an elevational view of the lower part of a curtain equipped with my improved fixture, the curtain-stick appearing in longitudinal section and the outer shell or casing of the head on the left being removed. Fig. 2 is a detail plan view of a blank from which the shell of the head may be formed. Fig. 3 is an elevational view, partly dismantled, of a modified form of head; and Fig. 4 is a crosssectional view on the line 4 4 of Fig. 3.

Referring to the drawings, 5 may designate the lower portion of a curtain, in and across which is formed a pocket 6, containing a tubular curtain-stick 7. Slidably mounted in the latter are a pair of rods 8, the outer ends of which project beyond the ends of the curtain-stick, while their inner adjacent ends are normally forced apart by a coiled spring 9 interposed therebetween, said rods being capable of retraction through the agency of pinch-handles 10 connected thereto and playing in a slot 11 of the curtain-stick.

Fast on the outer end of each rod 8 is the fixture-head, which in the form shown in Figs. 1 and 2 comprises a central block 9 and a covering-shell 10. The ends of the block 9 are hollowed out on their outer edges to form pockets or seats 11, adapted to loosely confine and house rollers 12, which latter are adapted to peripherally contact the surface of the casing-guid eV in the usual manner. The outer shell is preferably formed from a blank of sheet metal, such asis shown in Fig. 2, by

bending the same at two points longitudinally to thereby provide an inner or rear wall and a pair of parallel side walls. The inner edge of the head 9 is preferably depressed the thickness of the shell, Aas shown at 9 in Fig. 1, to receive and seat the inner wall of the shell, while the side walls of the latter overlie the opposite sides of the block,

being secured thereto, as by screws 13. rPhe end walls, and one side wall and adapted to seat the rollers 12, with removable side walls 15 applied to said enlarged ends to complete the housing of the rollers.

ln operation the outward thrust of the heads exerted by the spring 9 is imparted to the rollers 12, forcing the latter into contact with the casing-guide and at the same time exerting a braking or retarding eil1 ect againstthe free rotation of said rollers induced by the upward pull of the curtain-roller spring, whereby sufficient friction is produced between the rollers and the casing-guide to prevent an-'upward movement of the curtain, thereby holding the latter stationary in any IOO adjusted position. When the curtain is to l 2. A curtainiixture comprising a curtainbe drawn downwardly'7 this may be done stick, a spring-pressed rod carried thereby, a Without friction between the 'fixture and the l head carried by said rod consisting of a block guide by simply contracting the pinch-handles or base provided with roller-pockets of a .cir- 10, thereby retracting the iiXture-heads .and j cuinferential extent exceeding one-hahc the rollers from the guide. t circumference of the rollers and adapted to I claim- I loosely confine the latter peripherally, and 1. A curtain-'[iXture comprising a curtaincoinpleinental side plates attached to said stick, a spring-pressed rod carried thereby7 a i block and forming side Walls of said pockets, head carried by said rod consisting of a block and rollers mount-ed in said pockets, subor base pryided With 1ocketsorseats1 adapt stantially as described. ed to con ine the ro ers )eri heral y, and r T coinpleinental side plates Iattzibhed to said IRVING L' HOTALHNG' block and forming the side Walls of said l pockets7 and rollers mounted in said pockets, l substantially as described. l

Witnesses:

ERNEST BARTELT, LAWRENCE B. READER. 

